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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-12904: libgcrypt physical addresses being available to other processes leads to a flush-and-reload side-channel attack

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-12904: libgcrypt physical addresses being available to other processes leads to a flush-and-reload side-channel attack

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
06/20/2019
Created
12/18/2019
Added
11/08/2019
Modified
12/14/2020

Description

** DISPUTED ** In Libgcrypt 1.8.4, the C implementation of AES is vulnerable to a flush-and-reload side-channel attack because physical addresses are available to other processes. (The C implementation is used on platforms where an assembly-language implementation is unavailable.) NOTE: the vendor's position is that the issue report cannot be validated because there is no description of an attack.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libgcrypt

References

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